New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-16
HONORS TO CHAMBERLAIN.
ENTERTAINED BY THE CHAMBER OF COM.
MERGE.
THAT BoDYs 18TH ANNUAL Observation-Disclosures
BY SECRETARY LAMAR, Mr. CnAMBE gLAIY,
CHACNCEY ". ID PEW, MAYOR HEWITT,


CHACNCEY NJ ID PEW, MAYOR HEWITT,
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS AND OTHERS.
Members OF the Chamber of Commerce Ia tb,
number ct two hundred or more ate the one
hundred ari nineteenth .lnner of that venerable
but thrl ing organization last night at DelmOncos
with company OF guests not often seen together
on such occasions. Not only werr the Government
and all the prominent sections of the country
represented by distinguished leaders in trade,
politics and professional life. not only as President
Smith expressed it, of the best OF
Rei ubcans, Democrats and the cream cf the
cream OF MuGwg:nps there but in Jose h Chamber.
lain, tic eminent Unonist Liberal; in W. II.
Crcamer, the ultra Radical; IIolcy Stewart. the
Home Ruler; and Sir George Campbell. of the
Canadian Parliament were seen typical men Of
the great many sided progressive party of Great
britain.
THE FOREIGN GUESTS ENJOYED IT.
1t was particularly enjoyable affair throuGhout
and to none more than the foreign guests if one
might judge from the interest they manifested
and the way they expressed themselves. The
splendid dining hall never deckcd more
tastcfuly with flags, f,wers and evcrgrccns The
tables, half dozen in all, including that of the
speakers, were all lavshly decorated. The music
was well selected and the artistic dinner card
all that the most cpicuIcan tastes could desire.
Unlike many dinners Of the kind
the speeches were, indeed the feature
of the occasion. 1T could not well be otherwise
with such men as Secretary Lamar, Mr.. Chamber.
lain. Chauncey NJ. Depew and George William Cur.
It's at the toast table.
President Charles :. Smith presided to the salts
faction of all. Secretary Lamar with his long,
dark locks and dreimy-lookng eyes,
sat his right, in striking
trast to the energetic, buslness-lIke
head of the Treasury Department, Mr.. Fairchild,
who sat next to Mr.. Smith on the left. Between
Mr. Farchd and Mr. Chamberlain, who were
next each other there seemed to be he most cor
dial understanding. They talked so earnestly al
first that many began to think the Secretary of the
Treasury getting some light on the
question of disposing OF the surplus from
the English statesman Mr.. Depew sat
between Mr. Chamberlain and Sir George Campbell
to the evident enjoyment of both. he other
guests on this sile were John BigelOw ex-Minlster
TO France; Samuel ID. Babcock, the Rev. DIR.
Chamberlain, Whielaw Reid, Enoch L. Fancher and
Mr. Bergne, the head of the Treaty Department OF
the English Government
Mayor Hewitt was Secretary Lamlr's right hand
ncighbor. Next to the Mayor sat James
c. Carter. George William Curtis was
between the two Members of Par
lament, Mr. Creamer and Mr.. Stewart, whose
company he seemed to find extremely agreeable.
Carr Schurz Maior-General SchOiell. Cong essm IN
= :. Cox aud James " Brown made up the rest OF
the guests At that table
PROMINENT MEN AT THE OTHER TABLES.
Each of the other table, was arranged to ac-
comm0dite about fifty guests There were few II
auy vacant chairs. Constant A. Andrews presided
over the first. Charles Watrous the second, Henry
Hentz the third, Josiah NJ. Fiske the fourth,
aud Woodbury. LangdOn the fifth. Here are somo
of the well.known gentlemen who enjoyed the din